Contemporary science and ancient myths combine to show how prehistoric man knew of parallel universes. Not from theoretical quantum models but from face-to-face interaction with their denizens. Over the last forty years television series and movies focused on the public's thirst for inexplicable phenomena. The growing number of books devoted to works explaining everything from UFO's to Stonehenge are testaments of continuing and increasing interest. Each theory is specialized, honed to explain a specific mystery. Each generates more opponents than supporters. What if a single theory unified and explained a majority of these enigmas? What if the same theory reached back into our past and demonstrated ancient people dealt with these same mysteries? Otherworld presents such a theory, a theory born from a single question: What if Stonehenge really was a stone hinge?
edit biographydelete Biography First cousins, Steve and Pat Conroy's families often shared their grandmother's big house in Atlanta. Both wanted to be writers. Pat became a literary lion by the time he was thirty. Steve began writing semi-seriously in the 1980's. Now, for better or for worse, he writes full time. Steve traveled extensively and explored histories and myths of peoples and places all over the world. He loves all things ancient, mysterious and digs deep into lore and enigmas for his subjects. Difficult to classify his books, they are always reviewed as unique and fresh storylines with believable characters. Often, he can't help sprinkling a touch of humor in an otherwise serious scene.
His books on Amazon include:
W-G-O-D: In your Dreams, All night, Every Night The Island Builders Your Money or Your Mustard Longclaws Alien Agenda Coyote Dreaming Otherworld The Game Inventors Handbook Million Dollar Monster (Short Story) The Sword of the Stone (Short Story) Global Warning (Short Story) New Roads (Short Story) The Sword of the Flame (Short Story) One Day Sale (Short Story)
He loves animals, especially birds and loves to sit and watch them at the feeders when his dogs allow it. He appreciates the magic of life and the interconnection of all things.
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Please note: This review is based off the 2010 edition, which I edited for re-release in April 2013.
My Thoughts: This is a really interesting read. Peek explores the idea that not only are there parallel worlds--Otherworlds--but that access to them has led to the monster myths, UFO sightings, and the building of megaliths, monumuents and henges across the world. He expands on this idea using everything from the Theory of Relativity to nuclear submarines and torpedoes to tales of the fairy folk. I'm very excited to see the updated edition that will result from my edits; I think it'll be amazing.
I finished reading this tonight and found it fascinating. The chapters about megaliths, the grid, and magnetism were interesting but could have been expanded on. I would read this again.